Mexico: dismembered corpse dumped after presidential candidate says 'cut off hands'
Source: Guardian
Jaime Rodríguezs grim suggestion for punishing those who steal from the public purse drew incredulty and mockery, then terrifying reality
David Agren in Mexico City
@el_reportero
Tue 24 Apr 2018 13.40 EDT
When a Mexican presidential candidate proposed in a televised debate that public servants who steal should have their hands cut off, his comments were initially greeted with disbelief, and then mockery.
Hours later, however, there was a much grimmer reaction: drug cartel members dumped a dismembered corpse in the Pacific city of Acapulco with a sign saying that they were already enforcing the punishment.
Jaime Rodríguez, a cowboy-turned-state-governor who is pursuing the presidency as an independent candidate drew gasps during Sundays first presidential debate when he suggested in apparent earnest that Mexico could fight corruption by cutting off the hands of those who steal from the public purse.
The debates host twice asked him if he was speaking seriously, and after the debate Rodríguez who campaigns under the nickname El Bronco doubled down on his proposal, saying in a video: Its something we have to do to end corruption in Mexico, which is a cancer.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/24/corpse-dumped-in-acapulco-after-presidential-candidate-says-cut-off-hands
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)About "El Bronco" (Jaime Rodríguez) "Hes going for easy points to score name recognition, said Javier Garza, a journalist in the northern city of Torreón. He doesnt have ideas and prefers to play with peoples anger instead of offering a serious proposal. Textbook demagogue.
For that matter, which political party uses Americans' fear to always vote against their own best interests?
Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
Chemisse
(30,821 posts)Let's hope all the American copycats of a shock and awe election season are also shot down so decisively (although minus the horrific death, of course).
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)i mean sadly...is this new?
Calista241
(5,586 posts)Trip to the spa. The worst stories Ive heard about with the cartel is called Necklacing.
Necklacing is the practice of summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tyre, filled with petrol, around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The victim may take up to 20 minutes to die, suffering severe burns in the process.
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)just sop
inwiththenew
(972 posts)Sadly.
a la izquierda
(11,802 posts)Not in the slightest. Im currently working on violence against women in mexico.
The stuff I read would give most people nightmares.